El Ghouri Mosque
El Ghouri Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الغوري) was a Tunisian mosque in the Medina of Tunis. It does not exist anymore.[1]
Localization
It was located in El Haddadine street.
Etymology
The mosque got its name from a saint, Cheikh Abi Yahia Ben Abi Baker El Ghouri El Safakisi (Arabic: أبي يحيى بن أبي بكر الغوري الصفاقسي) a wise Jurisconsult who lived in the 8th century.
References
- ↑ Mohamed Belkhodja, Tārīkh maʻālim al-tawḥīd fī al-qadīm wa-fī al-Jadīd, Tunis, al-Maṭbaʻah al-Tūnisīyah, 1939, 429 p
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